Tag: US
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On the Road: Updates on West Africa
While I’m traveling at the moment, I wanted to send a quick update on one of 2015’s steadily developing stories. As Boko Haram gobbles up more airtime and political talking points, interested readers should keep their eyes in the upcoming AU Summit in Addis Ababa. Defense One has a helpful overview here. For context on…
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The Trouble with Titles: On Perspective and Opinion
My op-ed was not intended —in a meager 800 words— to clearly render the entire landscape of UN peacekeeping. The goal was to illustrate how responsibility —and the empty rhetoric that follows its invocation— demands accounting.
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Challenging Pirates in Tempestuous Seas
In keeping with the “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” argument, most countries have a non-engagement policy with pirates: paying a ransom is seen to incentivize the illegal activity — to give rise to a new wave of open-sea scoundrels eager to exploit the lucrative shadow world of transnational crime. But as the tactics used by…
Adam McCauley 